It is a pattern of metabolic strain. Persistently high insulin has been associated with conditions that tend to unfold later in life, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cognitive ...

Neuropathy – chronic pain, numbness and tingling in the hands and feet – is a challenging fact of life for many patients with ...

Adrenomedullin disrupts insulin signaling in blood vessels, leading to systemic insulin resistance in obesity-associated type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by a team at the Max Planck Institute ...

Insulin resistance plays a role in many diseases. The new research provides insights into why insulin resistance appears to be associated with neurodegenerative disorders. Corresponding author Kai ...

Developing resistance to insulin is a key step on the road to diabetes, making insulin resistance a target for treating metabolic dysfunction. Insulin orchestrates blood glucose levels by signaling ...

Insulin is one of the most potent and pleiotropic hormones in the body, regulating a myriad of physiological processes. However, perhaps none is best studied as its role in regulating glucose ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD New research suggests sleeping a little longer on weekends may help people who cut their sleep short ...

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and collaborating institutions have found that overnutrition leads to insulin resistance and metabolic disorders through increased activity of the ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have succeeded in showing, in an animal model, that the process of insulin resistance in the brain affects both Alzheimer’s disease and ...

Dr Sudhir Kumar states that insulin resistance is not simply about sugar intake but more about movement, sleep, fat distribution, food quality and stress.

When lipid biologist Usha Acharya at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) tinkered with lipid breakdown pathways in Drosophila melanogaster, she observed something intriguing. Blocking a biochemical ...